Lu Yun spent three days inside the Army Pagoda. Upon determining the proper approach for his path, he carefully avoided biting off more than he could chew and focused on practicing Dragonrise after erasing Dragonsoar.

Dragonrise had been created in the chaos—it was a technique that contained a bit of the Dragonquake Scripture, but was also wholly Lu Yun’s own sword dao.

This stroke was perfect from the perspective of the second realm, but too awful and weak to consider from the heights of the Hongmeng. The two realms were on completely different levels of existence.

When Dusksnow Morningstar deployed it, just the move’s meaning alone had overcome Hua Fengwen with awe. Since Lu Yun’s true...